² It is said that in 1284 John Peckham, who was then Archbishop of Canterbury, issued a set of Injunctions to Merton College requesting the College to make available the standard dictionaries of the day:

"We desire that you acquire copies of Papias, Hugutio, and the Summa of Brito, to be kept chained on a decent table somewhere so that all may have free access to them".

See Summa Britonis sive Guillelmi Britonis Expositiones Vocabularium Biblie, edit. by Lloyd W. Daly and Bernadine A. Daly. Padua 1975, p. XI.